Introducing “Soul Science”—The Podcast
Introducing a brand new podcast series coming to New Walden—”Soul Science: Conversations at the Crossroads of Science and the Spiritual.”
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Happening Tonight at NC State! Is Science Refuting Religion?
“Faith and Science: Conflict or Confluence?” This is a BIG QUESTION. Patrick Coffin and I dig into this subject in our conversation , which you can find here: I have much more to say about this subject in an upcoming post. Stay tuned!
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Answering Your Questions
The comments section has been pretty active for the past several days, and the subject that is on everybody’s mind is St. Andrew’s and Fr. Long. ( In case you didn’t know, if you are following some of these discussions, there is a section on the left sidebar that displays the latest comments. Clicking on […]
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The Cost of Doing Nothing, Part 2: The Heresies of Fr. William Long
[This is the second installment of a series. For part 1, click here.] Apostasy is spreading like a California wildfire these days. Just take a look at these advertisements for the “World Meeting of Families,” a Catholic conference happening in Ireland next year. If you click on the link below you will discover that the […]
Read More…Duke Powerpoint: “Does Religion Really Poison Everything? A Critical Review of New Atheist Perspectives on Religion and Science”
Here are the slides that went with my lecture at Duke Medical School. I believe all sources are adequately cited. I think I noticed a couple of slides where attributions were inadvertently/inexplicably cut off. I may make changes to some slides since I will certainly make use of this resource in the future. The slides […]
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The Science of Sinning Less—From Christianity Today
Practicing Christians have more self-control than lax Christians and secular people according to a study that is featured in the latest issue of Christianity Today. [Bold emphasis is mine.] Because Christianity requires self-control, it logically follows that it also builds it, and thus we can expect active Christians to have relatively high levels of self-control. And […]
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Advertisement for My Duke Lecture—Happening 4-26-17
Just thought I would share this with you. It’s the advertisement for my Duke lecture that is going out to seminar participants. Title: “Does Religion Really Poison Everything? A Critical Review of New Atheist Perspectives on Religion and Science” In his 1999 book Rocks of Ages, the late Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould coined […]
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Hey, Everybody! Let’s Give Up Sex For Lent!!!
No, really, I’m serious. Whenever I read the lives of the saints, I am always so blown away by their heroic virtue. (I’m convinced there’s just no other word for it—HEROIC VIRTUE.) In one of the children’s books on St. Dominic that I read to my kids, it tells how young Dominic, at the tender […]
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